Apocynum Androsæmifolium apoc-a.

This "dog's bane" is a perennial herb belonging to the Apocynaceæ. A tincture is prepared from the fresh root.

Apocynum cannab.

Trembling. ▶ Pain in different parts; P. on turning to left side; P. in all joints; flying P. in different parts. ▶ Swollen sensation in body and face. ▶ Heaviness of body, with great sleepiness. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Fulness in head. ▶ Headache; in left side; pulsating A. in occiput; A. in back of head and neck, with stiffness. ▶ Great itching and irritation in left nostril. ▶ Great sneezing. ▶ Everything smelled like honey. ▶ Twitching of facial muscles. ▶ Violent pain in left zygomatic process. ▶ Pain in all left lower teeth. ▶ Taste delightful. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Vomiting; with purging; effort at V. ▶ Flying pain in stomach.

Shooting pain in left groin. ▶ Feeling as if something would pass the bowels, with fulness and pain in right side. ▶ Diarrhœa, with pain and rumbling, only two stools, but copious and affording much relief; D. and constipation on alternate days. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Frequent bilious stools; painful bilious diarrhœa. ▶ Micturition frequent. ▶ Urine profuse. ▶ Menses profuse, lasting eight days, with violent pressing pain.

Dull heavy pain when breathing, seeming to go from above downward. ▶ Pain in nape extending to front of neck. ▶ Stiff neck. ▶ Pulsating pain in right forearm. ▶ Pain above wrists. ▶ Hands and feet swell. ▶ Pain in knee and in right shoulder. ▶ Cramp in soles, agg. right, with burning and with pain in joint of left big toe and heat in right leg and knee. ▶ Tingling pain in toes, sharp pain in middle toe. ▶ Itching of body and face; of face, with burning. ▶ Inability to sleep. ▶ S. unrefreshing. ▶ Violent dreams. ▶ Chilliness. ▶ Heat of head and neck; H. in right leg and knees. ▶ Profuse sweat of whole body, with violent heat in soles.

Has been found useful in acute rheumatism with great stiffness. ▶ General rheumatic pains. ▶ It has been used for renal calculi and gravel.